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Sir Thomas Lipton. Location of events unknown.

CU of Sir Thomas Lipton of Lipton Tea; etc.; merchant; industrialist and competitive yachtsman. Lipton; born in 1850; would be near 70 in this shot. He started by opening a grocery store and ended up an extremely wealthy and powerful businessmen. This is just a CU of the old guy wearing a polka-dot bow tie and a dark captain's hat. Behind him a bunch of criss-crossed metal bars; and a spring part of his yacht though in this. CU it isn't obviously a boat.